Mr Kenny said he had written to 300 people inviting them and that it was the intention that next week’s meeting would be the first of several with separate meetings for different sectors and industries.

He said he would publish the names of those invited shortly.

Mr Adams said it was vital the Irish government did not resile from its responsibilities for the whole of the island because of Brexit.

“What happens in the north is our business,” he said.

Mr Kenny replied that he had raised Northern Ireland in all his meetings with EU leaders since the UK vote to leave the EU.

He said he noted the comments made by the first Minister and Deputy First Minister in Down Street earlier this week after meeting Theresa May.

He again said he knew Brexit was politically different for them because of their different positions on the vote but he hoped there would be an agreed position by the time of the North-South Ministerial Council on 18 November.

He said he had asked his ministers to contact their Northern Ireland counterparts in advance of that gathering.

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